Posted on 05/14/2014 6:27:35 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
A Hinsdale Central High School student is challenging a suspension he said he received for wearing to school a T-shirt that depicts an AK-47.
Senior Chris Borg, 18, of Hinsdale, appeared before the Hinsdale Township High School District 86 school board Monday to make the request that the suspension he received on May 6 be removed from his record.
Borg told the board that he wore a T-shirt with the outline of an AK-47 depicted on the back, a url for the website of a Kentucky armory club that supports gun rights and the words "TeamAK" on it. He said the shirt did not identify the gun as an AK-47 in writing.
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Uniforms are not necessary for proper education. My kids received a great education in shorts and flip flops (we were in Florida for most of their education). Of course we cared enough for their education to lower our potential income by homeschooling.
I have absolutely no problem with folks sending their kids to a private institution that requires uniforms. However, government should have no control over what anyone, including children, wears. Government enforced uniformity generally does not turn out well, as evidenced by history.
I have the same t-shirt. Unfortunately, I do not look near as good in it.
LOL, neither do I!
Oh, my mistake.
You're right, the school does have to take the consequences of it's stand.
Yes yes, your children managed to survive without it, people survive being shot in the head sometimes too, doesn’t mean folks should go out getting shot in the head based on those cases.
As to uniforms in education, the evidence regarding education goes back centuries, denying it is just flat out ignorant.
The reality is, if you are too lazy or poor to educate your children yourself, and put them in public education, you have turned your kids over to that state you feel is so threatening to you for 7-8 hours a day for at least 12 years of the formative years of their lives... so to then gripe that a uniform is an affront to your believe in liberty is laughable.
Public Schools are the minimal, they are what you accept when you have no choice, or refuse to do what is needed to get your kids educated properly. You can rant about it all you like, but the numbers don’t lie, public schools do not hold a candle to private education.
The great lie in public education is simply the educate so poorly that folks that are products of it largely have no idea what they have been robbed of, because they know no difference. I fortunately had the opportunity to be part of both systems growing up, and I saw and still see first hand how pathetically bad the public schools are, they are now starting their 4th generation of abject decay, so now only a kids grandparents if they are lucky can see exactly how bad it has gotten.
You think its just pure coincidence that students coming out of public schools with “decent” grades, get stuck in remedial math and english when they go to college? Nope, not a fluke. You think its accident that they consistently score lower on testing? Nope.
Uniforms have been part of formal education for centuries and every study done has shown they do aid in better overall education, even when they are instituted in public schools... but you know who cares about facts and putting education first, lets quibble over t-shirts and waist resources and time disciplining and arguing social nonsense instead of focusing on making sure kids are able to think critically and compete on the world stage.
There was a time when the US Public education system was the envy of the world, that time ended over 5 decades ago.
C’mon!
That’s not you...
Only $21 for a Mozambique flag t shirt on line.
Yes, that will confuse the administrators, maybe enough to lock them in a logic loop, ala Star Trek.
I know! I linked to the site where they sell them.
As I said above, I am not nearly that good looking.
Did you even read what I wrote? I detest “public” government “education”. It is at its core thought control. Giving them even more power (to mandate uniforms) makes no sense. As I stated, I am fine with private schools mandating uniforms. That is between the school and parent. It is freely chosen by the parents.
Your opening statement is ignorant. Our kids flourished in homeschooling and are well educated (in a classical sense) and able to think and reason for themselves because of it.
No it wasn’t. It involved everyone kicking a certain amount of money whoever showed up with either the heaviest or ugliest, won the pot.
No it wasn’t. It involved everyone kicking a certain amount of money whoever showed up with either the heaviest or ugliest, won the pot.
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